VRISKA: What?? No, Sollux, w8!SOLLUX: nah, i've pretty much had it t00.SOLLUX: i can't believe i went al0ng with this f0r as l0ng as i did, s0 yeah.SOLLUX: i'll be fucked tw0 ways fr0m perigees eve bef0re i let tavr0s upstage me in the backb0ne department.SOLLUX: aradia, s0rry, i can't be a part 0f this anym0re, it's just making me feel dirty.ARADIA: i understand solluxSOLLUX: let's catch up again later, h0pefully when this is all 0ver.ARADIA: yeah :DSOLLUX: 0h, feferi and nepeta will be c0ming with me t00.VRISKA: WHAT!VRISKA: No they f8cking won't!!!!!!!!SOLLUX: yes they will! they just t0ld me.VRISKA: I d8dn't hear them say shit!SOLLUX: they b0th gave me meaningful glances!SOLLUX: like as if t0 say, aw yeah, let's b0unce.FEFERI: 3;)NEPETA: ;33VRISKA: YOU'RE BLIND, H8W COULD YOU SEE A "ME8NINGFUL GLANCE"????????SOLLUX: instead 0f underestimating the perspicacity 0f the sens0ry impaired, why d0n't y0u bite me.VRISKA: No, they can't go! Commodore Nepeta and Rear Admiral Feferi are 8oth critical mem8ers of my crew!VRISKA: This is mutiny!!!!!!!!ARANEA: Vriska, I am on your side here. 8ut I feel I should point out that technically they 8oth outrank you.VRISKA: Excuse me?!VRISKA: No they don't! Come on, I just gave them titles that sounded cool!VRISKA: How can you outrank a captain????????ARANEA: 8y 8eing a commodore?VRISKA: A commodore outranks a captain?!MEENAH: yea fraid soARANEA: Yes, and a rear admiral outranks a commodore.VRISKA: No, 8ut!VRISKA: I thought a rear admiral was like...VRISKA: Some sort of JOKE rank!VRISKA: Who can take a rear admiral seriously? It might as well 8e a poopmaster!MEENAH: um no serk its actually a real thingMEENAH: god damn for a pirate you really know fuckall about nautical junkMEENAH: pretty embarrassing tbhSOLLUX: yeah, this stuff is all super interesting. j/k, l0sers.SOLLUX: anyway, we're 0ut.

That was the last update for a good while. I'll say more about the pause soon.

The flash: song was an old and good one by Malcolm Brown, whose name I'd hope you would be familiar with by now. Art contributed by Adrienne, Ikimaru, Guzusuru, Shelby, and Rah. Great to work with all these people again. As has always been the case, the enthusiasm for the story by all contributors really shows in the work they do, and makes the final animation result feel a lot more special than it otherwise would be. A big thanks to all these artists, along with anyone else who ever left their artistic mark on this story.

9828 had a song and a drawing by James Roach and Ipgd respectively. Whoa, those are respectively very very good. The doomsday screed is by this son of a bozo, and it does appear to have motivated quite a STRONG wave of selfie posting. Maybe enough to even save the website from old man Hussie? Guess we'll find out. Hmm, sure does seem like Homestuck has a lot of good lookin' readers. I must say I am impressed. I have taken quite an extensive tour through your offerings and I have yet to find an unattractive face in front of Arquiusprite's tremendous buttocks. Kudos to every single selfie-snapper for being so preposterously photogenic. Just, wow. People have got a couple tumblrarchives already if you want to take a look. I don't know which of those is "better," or more exhaustive, but you know what, a little competition never killed anybody. I guess they can be like the Coke and Pepsi of this baloney ass stunt, for as long as people wanna keep pointing phones at their own faces.

Starting now, We Love Fine will become the primary seller of Homestuck products. Almost everything from the What Pumpkin store will be gradually moved over to the We Love Fine store over the next few weeks. We're also working on a lot of cool new things, which will show up in the WLF store over the following months.

WLF is also running another shirt design contest this month. There were a whole lot of great entries last time, and many of them ended up getting printed. Maybe YOU have a cool idea for a shirt this time around?? I would like to see it!

In closing, I will say this. We Love Fine is a great company! I've worked with them for a couple years already. The people there are VERY enthusiastic about making great stuff for fandoms. Take a look around their site. There's a good chance you will see stuff for other properties you like as well. I'm looking forward to seeing what else they're going to make for Homestuck!